Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson, the Rodney, the Hood and the Renown (together the most powerful fighting unit in the world) escorted the Royal Yacht which flew the Royal Standard (embellished with seven lions and a harp). At a signal from the King Emperor destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were...
...warehouses are piled from cellar to roof with 25,000,000 pairs of unsaleable shoes." Contrary to his usual custom Tycoon Bat'a was not in the luxurious cabin of his plane when it took off but perched up beside the pilot. A story flew through Prague that the pilot, when found dead, had a bullet through his head. Even if this were true no coroner of Zlin could be expected to confirm a fact so damaging to the House of Bat'a. The bullet story was officially and vehemently denied...
...food situation became so acute that Commander-in-Chief Walter Waters flew to New York to beg supplies. There Adam Hat Stores, Inc. donated 90 tons of food, of which 1,500 Ib. of beef was rushed to Washington by plane. In Commander Waters' absence, Communist John Pace, leader of the Workers' Ex-Service Men's League, arose to attack his dictatorship. A thousand conservative Veterans began closing in on the noisy little Red. Suddenly out of nowhere appeared General Glassford. "Pace has just as much right to speak here as anyone," he shouted...
Feverishly excited Chileans expected a new Government any moment last week as former Dictator-General Carlos Ibanez flew home from a year of exile in Argentina. Dispatches reported that "60% of the armed forces are for Ibanez." But the Navy, Air Force and some infantry appeared still to support the self-styled "Sane" Socialist government of Don Carlos Guillermo Davila (TIME, June...
...hunt. When the tugboats, 100 Coast Guard cutters, the British naval unit at Bermuda, twelve seaplanes and 60 privately owned ships had failed to discover the Curlew, the U. S. Navy Department ordered U. S. S. Akron, world's largest airship, to join the hunt. The Akron flew to Bermuda and back without success, was preparing to make another flight when word came last week that the Curlew had been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than at the start of the race...